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SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion

posted by takyon on Monday July 02 2018, @05:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-free dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

SUSE Linux Sold for $2.5 Billion

British software company Micro Focus International has agreed to sell SUSE Linux and its associated software business to Swedish private equity group EQT Partners for $2.535 billion.

Also at The Register, Linux Journal, MarketWatch, and Reuters.

Previously: SuSE Linux has a New Owner
HPE Wraps Up $8.8bn Micro Focus Software Dump Spin-Off

Related: SUSE Pledges Endless Love for btrfs; Says Red Hat's Dumping Irrelevant

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @09:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @09:18PM (#701579)

    It's not listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd [wikipedia.org] so that suggests it does.

  • (Score: 3, Troll) by frojack on Monday July 02 2018, @10:05PM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday July 02 2018, @10:05PM (#701596) Journal

    It has systemd, and their systemd (like everybody elses) works perfectly and is easier to maintain and use than their old init system, and is fully opensource, easily mastered. Suse's standard set of systemd services, timers, and such are pretty standard. Its logging is better than the old rats nest of logs.

    Adopting systemd actually cured many of Suse's problems. They suffered from the German Computing Disease" If one level of indirection was good, two, three, or five levels must be better.

    Previously they had parameters hidden deeper and deeper in rats nests of config files for scripting structures stacked 5 layers deep. Way worse than other distros. Systemd pretty much banished much of that and saved Suse from themselves.

    I'm still not happy with what systemd did to /etc/mtab but that's the only significant bitch I have.

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